Every Autumn during the last years I tried to go to a wonderful
place called “Wildenhainer Bruch” at the “Dübener Heide”
(near Leipzig, FRGermany). There´s a watching point from which you
can hear at this time Cranes, Red Deers, different Orthoptera´s or
watch a Sea Eagle without disturbing.
This Autumn I only managed to make this single recording.

27. August 2008, Red Deer Cervus elaphus, Common Crane Grus grus and Pholidoptera griseoaptera. 

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© Snapshot by Marcus Held

Whithin October 2008 Marcus and I were at a ringing station on isle
“Greifswalder Oie” in north of FRGermany.
For me, this offered a complete new view/hearing on this topic.
At my hometown Leipzig, the bird migration only appears with
large flocks of greater birds like Cranes or Geese. Now there were
mainly songbirds. One of the most frequent appearing birds on the island
were Goldcrests Regulus regulus – their high pitched calls were anywhere.

During the hourly “control-walks” along the nets, i notice a sound, seemingly
of geese, always from the same direction. Once a day, Marcus told me
about a tree nearby the nets that sounded like White-Fronted-Geese Anser albifrons
or kind of New Music!?

The acoustic highlight for me was two days of heavy migration
of Trushes. At morning. i walked a bit around, as i noticed hundreds
of ascending Blackbirds Turdus merula, Song Thrushes Turdus philomelos,
Mistle Thrushes Turdus viscivorus, Fieldfares Turdus pilaris, Redwings Turdus iliacus
and a single Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus.

12. October 2008, Goldcrest Regulus regulus
 

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22. October 2008, a tree
 

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12. October 2008, various migrating songbirds
 

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© Picture by Marcus Held